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Hey folks!
Please do NOT report artists for sharing links to where their art is available to purchase!
Just DO NOT be such a jerk!
If you want artists to keep sharing their work on mastodon, this whole "absolute no commercial posts at all" attitude has to stop. There is a huge difference between a big corporate ad campaign and an individual artist posting a link to their own art shop.
Edit/Update: Well, this blew up. I'm muting now, and won't see replies.
Positive Climate News of last week 🦜
Norms are changing 🙌🏻
🌟 Right to Repair law passed in EU
🪡 Clothes factory becomes repair centre
🏞️ Off-road driving no longer makes for cool advertising
🍖 Majority of Europeans are eating less meat
and also
🐋 Blue whales return to the Seychelles
🐊 Borneo floodplains to be restored
🫗New York suing Pepsi over plastic in water
All made possible by PEOPLE working to make a change - join or support today 🫱🏻🫲🏼
#PositiveClimateNews #ClimateCrisis #Nature
#vega
Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going "Just get a Brother, they're fine" and man
MAN
Like this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are good? Their printers are fine, they print, whatever, no, it's because everybody else's printers have gotten Innovated out the wazoo, every innovation making them way worse, until it's gotten to the point where I wouldn't have one in the house even if it were free, and meanwhile Brother's have remained consistently Fine I Guess, which now makes them the best printer manufacturer simply by virtue of them opting out of the Who Can Get Crappiest Fastest race
Brother have gotten to where they are now, by NOT innovating
EDIT 2023-11-27 2130 UTC: I muted this thread a while back because wew lad this got too big. I won't see your reply but the lurkers (and commentors) of Hacker News might.
Good morning! Are you looking for your platform? Do you need a good bye hug to make your trip easier? Would you like to know where's a Vectron at the station?
Just ask the railway doggo! He'll be happy to help. 🥰 🧡
Have a great week! ✨
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Never feel bad for having principals, boundaries or having to walk away when needs are not being met (as long as they aren't excessive of course!). Never let others make you feel bad for this either. Stand by what you believe in. (Snowy pic 'cause its COLD!)
#Fursuit #Fursuiter #Fursuiting #FurryAnthro #FoxFursuit #FoxFursona #TerrenceTheFox #Furry #UKFur #FurryFandom
I used to not get the point of people sharing screenshots of AI search engines telling them nonsense. Of course it's telling you nonsense, I thought. It's an AI. That's what it does
But then it dawned on me that many people don't realize that AIs are computer programs that tell you nonsense and make it seem plausible. And the more people realize that, the better. So keep posting
Guess who’s going to @FurCon ?!?! Meeeee! I haven’t been to this con or even the west coast since 2019! Here’s a shot from my first trip there back in 2018 w/ Nev 2.0 and @mokiemutt
Speaking of Mokie, next weekend is his first con east of the Mississippi w/ MFF! If you see him say hi :)
#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay #furcon #furcon24
this post prompted me to check the UK’s energy mix:
Gas: 38.5%
Wind: 26.8%
Nuclear: 15.5%
Biomass: 5.2%
Coal: 1.5%
Solar: 4.4%
Imports (mixed source): 5.5%
Hydro: 1.8%
Energy storage: 0.9%
It’s a real shame we’re led by #Tories who couldn’t find a single bidder for latest round of offshore wind, but will open coal mines.
The National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) has posted data on the electricity mix for the entirety of 2022, confirming a record year for wind generation in many respects.Sarah George (edie)
Check out what Kakurady will be attending at Midwest FurFest 2023Kakurady (mff2023.sched.com)
A jury ruled that Trump committed violent sexual assault.
A judge ruled he committed financial fraud.
Now another judge has found (what we all saw for ourselves) that he engaged in an insurrection.
How is it possible that he's still a candidate for president?
Yes, I use strong #encryption.
Why, no, I don't have anything to #hide.
I also #mail my #correspondence in #opaque #envelopes, rather than on the backs of #postcards.
No, I don't have anything to hide there, either.
#Normalize encryption.
There is no such thing as "#lawful #access". Encryption is #math. There is no math that the "good guys" can do but which cannot be done by the "bad guys".
Anyone who suggests different is #lying, to #spy on you.
#Fight them.
Do unskilled people actually underestimate their incompetence?Blair Fix (Economics from the Top Down)
K, I apparently am late to the "sharks have been around for a ridiculously long time" thing. I mean, I know they're ancient, but I really did not have a clue just how ancient, relative to other "things that have been around forever".
The one that blew my mind is the age of sharks relative to the existence of the universe.
By our best understanding, the Big Bang happened about 13.8 billion years ago. Sharks have existed on Earth for about 450 million years. That means sharks have existed for approximately 3% of the entirety of the existence of the Universe.
Standard "some things that sharks are older than" list:
Whenever I explain my #research at Google into mobile text editing, I'm usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile "Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What's the problem?"
Text editing on mobile isn't ok. It's actually much worse than you think, an invisible problem no one appreciates. I wrote this post so you can understand why it's so important.
https://jenson.org/text
#UXDesign #UX
I wonder if we're doing #politics wrong? In almost all countries.
Can be difficult not to under estimate the help one has received in life, & to over estimate self reliance & personal input
Isn't that the root of much selfish behaviour, thinking, voting, politics:
believing "I made it on my own"?
Maybe we should positively & nostalgically but clear eyed remind people of all #healthCare & #education they got as children, #housing/job market security, #community etc their parents had access to
Defying Doomsday by Tsana Dolichva and Holly Kench is one of my favorite collections of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. It is all stories of disabled protagonists, and offers many POV that ableds never consider. It’s not necessarily the stories we need - it’s direct defiance of the ableist tropes. But I would love to read books that are clear on how we as a species have survived to this point - by taking care of each other.
Max Brooks World War Z was notable for that - the narrator advocated clearly for survivors collecting others, as the more people you have, the more diverse skill sets, interests and abilities - that those who build community survive, and those who don’t… go the way of LAMOE - last man on earth, mostly suicides, or dead by accident that would have been survivable had others been there to help.
UAE planned to use COP28 summit for oil deals, documents show
Simeon Kerr (Financial Times)I might become a big fan of that climate change.
That is what we get to hear and under the deck they sip champagne and talk to each other how great life is and once the iceberg is too close for comfort we incite some fights among the pebble running the show and take the life boats to escape.
@CheRosach
Life Of Brian PFJ meeting to take action
YouTube(lost the original author)
#climate #weather #Titanic